Best birthday wishes to Shemar Moore, who turns 49 on Saturday, April 20.

Moore has spent the majority of his acting career on CBS. First, he joined The Young and the Restless (1994-2005) in the role of Malcolm Winters, he followed that with his role as Derek Morgan for 11 seasons on the hit crime series Criminal Minds, and now he stars as Daniel “Hondo” Harrelson in the network’s S.W.A.T. series.

The California native began his career as model, but he has also had a chance to show off his winning personality as the host of Soul Train (1999-2003).

Moore earned a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series in 2000 for Y&R, as well as Daytime Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Younger Leading Actor in a Drama Series in 1996 and 1997; and a Daytime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series in 1999.

In addition, he is the recipient of eight NAACP Image Awards, most recently in 2015 for Outstanding Actor in a Drama Series for his work on Criminal Minds. Additionally, he won the award six times in the Outstanding Actor in a Daytime Drama Series category for his role on Y&R.

Moore’s mother, Marilyn Wilson, was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 1998. Since then, he has become committed to raising awareness about the disease and is a spokesperson for the National Multiple Sclerosis Society. For the last nine years, Moore has participated in the organization’s annual charity Bike MS ride from Santa Barbara to Los Angeles. Also, Moore donates a portion of the proceeds from his “Baby Girl” clothing line, named after the popular phrase he coined on Criminal Minds, to the National Multiple Sclerosis Society.

Moore was born in Oakland, Calif. and was raised in Denmark and Bahrain for the first six years of his life when his mother, an educator, taught overseas. During that time, they traveled to Germany, Ghana, Pakistan, Greece and the Virgin Islands.

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